What is Gaucher Disease?Gaucher Disease is a rare inherited disorder that impairs the body’s ability to break down a type of fat (glucocerebroside), resulting in fat buildup in the liver, spleen, and ...

Fatty liver disease (also called steatotic liver disease) happens when too much fat builds up in your liver. It can be caused by high alcohol use or metabolic syndrome (a group of conditions like ...

Your liver silently performs hundreds of essential functions daily, from filtering toxins to supporting digestion and metabolism. Yet this resilient organ faces a formidable adversary in alcohol. The ...

Liver disease includes any condition that damages your liver. Over time, scar tissue can build up in your liver. Scarring or fibrosis can progress over many years until you develop cirrhosis—the most ...

Beetroot contains compounds that can help the liver to filter out toxins effectively. Here is how it can be helpful and who ...

An upset stomach feels familiar. Bloating after a meal, mild pain, or nausea gets blamed on food, stress, or acidity. But in ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) doesn’t always cause obvious symptoms. When symptoms do appear, fatigue and abdominal pain are the most common. MASLD develops when too ...

Even with Congress in it's lame-duck session, we would like to call attention to the growing problem of liver disease, which is becoming a public health crisis. There are more than 100 different types ...

If you’re in menopause, you may be more likely to get new health problems because of changes that happen when your body stops producing estrogen. One of these health problems can be nonalcoholic fatty ...

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty foods can push liver cells into a survival mode that quietly raises the risk of ...